Prime Video’s The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal led unscripted winners at the 2025 Canadian Screen Awards (CSAs) on Friday (May 30) evening.

The documentary series on the iconic Kingston, Ont. rock band (pictured) recorded seven wins during the Documentary, Factual, Lifestyle and Reality Awards, the CSA’s second of five ceremonies, hosted by ETalk’s Sonia Mangat and Chloe Wilde.

Awards picked up by The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal (Fully and Complete Productions) included Best Direction, Documentary Series for Mike Downie; Best Biography or Arts Documentary Program or Series and the Barbara Sears Awards for editorial and visual research.

Crave’s Canada’s Drag Race (Blue Ant Studios) was runner-up in terms of total haul, with six statues, including its international all-stars edition, Canada’s Drag Race: Canada Vs. The World. Wins for the Canadian adaptation of the hit franchise ins included Best Direction, Reality/Competition for Shelagh O’Brien; Best Host or Presenter, Factual or Reality/Competition for its three judges; and Best Production Design or Art Direction, Non-Fiction.

Crave also won in the best nature or science documentary category with An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Cream Productions). Other Crave Original winners include We’re All Gonna Die (Even Jay Baruchel) (90th Parallel Productions) for Best Writing, Factual and Dark Side of the Ring (Vice Studios Canada) for Best Picture Editing, Factual.

CBC was recognized eight times across its series and platforms. This included a Best Direction, Factual win for CBC Gem’s For the Culture with Amanda Parris and a history documentary series or program win for Paid in Full: The Battle For Black Music (Pink Towel Media, Zinc Media).

The pubcaster also won the Best Social/Political Documentary program with The Fifth Estate episode, ‘Contract to Kill,’ as well as the best documentary program overall with It’s Not Funny Anymore: Vice to Proud Boys (C3 Media, Urbania). Its other documentary wins included one for best writing in The Knowing (Makwa Creative) and best original music for Swan Song (Visitor Media, Mercury Films).

CTV Life Channel’s Mary Makes It Easy (Proper Television) won in both the Best Lifestyle Program or Series and Best Host, Lifestyle categories.

CTV proper also took home two awards: Best Direction, Lifestyle or Information for The Social; and best photography in a lifestyle or competition series for The Amazing Race Canada (Insight Productions). The Friday evening ceremony also saw Insight CEO John Brunton recognized with the Academy Board of Directors Tribute Award.

Corus Entertainment and TVO each received one award. The former for best picture editing in a reality or competition series thanks to Global’s Big Brother Canada (Insight Productions); while the latter’s Who Owns the World (Who Owns Productions, Hawkeye Pictures) was recognized as the Best Factual Series.

APTN took Best Children’s Or Youth Non-Fiction Program or Series with its in-house lumi Original Indigenous Art Adventures.

Saturday (May 31) will see the continuation of the 2025 CSAs with two more ceremonies: The Cinematic Arts Awards and the Scripted Television Awards. The awards will culminate on Sunday with a 90-minute broadcast on CBC and CBC Gem hosted by comedian and actor Lisa Gilroy.

Playback Daily‘s coverage of the CSA’s News, Entertainment and Sports Awards from Friday afternoon can be found here.

The full list of winners is available on the Academy website.

With files from Nicholas Sokic

Image courtesy of Prime Video